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Re: Burning CD



Three people asked about what advice I received
(see my initial question below). Nobody instructed
me on how to crate an auto-playable CD (with html
documents) on Mac.

According to a piece from Google doing this is not a
good idea. Presumably the ability to launch a disk
automatically is often turned off in order to reduce a
possibility of virus contamination. The advice was
to place a README.TXT file at the CD level. The icon
of that file will be displayed as soon as the CD is
inserted. A confused student will naturally open the
README.TXT file and see my instruction, such as:

"To begin using this disk drag the icon of index.html
into the icon of your browser."

That is what I will do. And I will put other information
into the README.TXT file, such as disk's purpose,
my my e-mail address, etc.

I also called the Apple "online support." The man who
answered said that creating auto-loadable CD is not
a trivial matter, that it "has to be programmed," etc.

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003 Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

I burned a CD with some material to share. It has
several folders with html files plus one file called
index.html. A user is expected to open index.html
in a browser. Is it possible, by using a Mac machine
(with OS 10.2.5), to make the disk self-starting? I
want the index.html file (telling students what to do)
to open automatically in a browser after the disk is
inserted.

Somebody explained to me that on a PC this can
be done by creating the disk-level file, called
autorun.ini, with the following content:

[Autorun]
open=CDLaunch/index.html

1) Is this correct?
2) How can the task be accomplished on a Mac?

Write to me in private, unless somebody else
expresses interest.

Ludwik Kowalski kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu